Fuel gauges (was: ford model a)

The Lindbergh Baby > writes:

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> I understand the T didn't have a gasd gauge either, at least originally.
>
> You had to take the seat off the car, and stick a long dipstick into a
> tank beneath said seat to measure how much fuel was left in the car.

Yup. There were aftermarket devices that included both a filler neck
extension (to the front edge of the seat cushion, so that you could
fill the tank without removing the seat cushion) and a gauge. The
second Model A dealt with the problem by putting the fuel tank in the
cowl, so a gauge on the rear of the tank was visible on the instrument
panel. But it remained for a University of Michigan professor named
King to invent a practical remote-reading fuel gauge. The King-Seeley
company was founded in Ann Arbor to manufacture it.

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